Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
Dick Clarke was the man who ruled America on 9/11 when the rulers were all trying to hide underground. He stayed in the situation room. For anyone who lacks evidence that Iraq was already there on the table and 9/11 was used as a pretext for the war, then they can find it in this book.
Tell me about Richard Clarke’s book, Against All Enemies.
Richard Clarke was the man who ruled America on 9/11 when the rulers were all trying to hide underground.
I thought Bush was in the air?
He was taken to an air base to hide until people figured out what was happening. He was not taken back to the White House immediately. Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice were taken by the secret services to the White House underground hideout. Dick Clarke stayed in the situation room and he tells of the internal situation, like when the President eventually did return to the White House and they decided at a meeting that it was al Qaeda and were discussing what would be a good response. After which, Bush pulls him out of the room and says: Can you find a Saddam angle on all this?
Clarke says: But we just decided…
And Bush says: I know, I know, but try again.
So, for those leaders who lack evidence that Iraq was already there on the table and 9/11 was used as a pretext then they can find it in this book. When I first saw it I thought: Oh gosh. I mean, we knew it, of course, but to see it there like that, it’s compelling, it’s … in your face.
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Yosri Fouda was chief investigative reporter for Al Jazeera Arabic for many years. He remains the only person to have interviewed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, masterminds of the 9/11 attacks. He is the co-author of Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack The World Has Ever Seen. As Al Jazeera’s London Bureau Chief, Fouda broke the story on the ‘martyrdom video’ by 9/11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Ziad Jarrah. He is now based in Cairo and presents Last Word on ONTV.
